Re: Very young kids, and WOW

Catriona R wrote:
On Thu, 14 Apr 2011 11:25:55 -0400, IYM <"S U N risr"@optonline.net>
wrote:

Catriona R wrote:
On Thu, 14 Apr 2011 10:08:42 -0400, IYM <"S U N risr"@optonline.net>
wrote:

Shiflet wrote:
"IYM" <"S U N risr"@optonline.net> wrote in message news:io6pev$b6v$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
He wasn't kicked from guild, just blocked from vent but I still see his toon on at midnight sometimes...Just things you have to wonder about....
Sure it's always him and not his dad doing things to "improve" the toon while the kid is asleep? I only ask cause a lot of times, my friend Malinda would be online, but if I whispered her, it was actually her boyfriend(she started playing cause of him) doing something or other for her while she was at work, or asleep. Sometimes he'd rep grind for her cause she saw a mount she liked, sometimes he'd work on achievements(usually holiday ones, to get her the proto drake), sometimes he'd just be in raids with their guild because he is toon was already saved to a raid, so since they needed another DPS, he figured he'd help her gear up in the process.


Good points, but no it's him. We found out his Dad was working nights, and stopped playing WoW for the most part. He kept his account active for his son. So maybe it's the mom, grandad or whoever is home that has no idea the kid is playing. Maybe he has the pc in his bedroom...Dunno. I should not have blamed the dad for questionable parenting. He might be clueless and thinks his kid is in bed while he is trying to make ends meet. But *someone* certainly is not doing a very good job, imo.
Jeez, an 8 year old online at 11pm or midnight? I'm kinda hoping it's
a timezone deal or that's pretty bad, I wasn't allowed to stay up that
late until my late teens, unless it was an exceptional occasion!
Nope - I know they live someplace in Kentucky - I live on the east coast, so it's only an hour behind me...

Damn, I was *hoping* it was a timezones issue, but guess not. Some
parents... :-/

That
said, the number of times I go shopping late at night to avoid crowds
(I can't take crowded places, especially with screaming children, that
really does my head in), and at 9-10pm there's some kid that looks no
older than 5-6, being dragged round by parents screaming its head off
the whole way... it
it?!? Although some do not care for kids, or want to deal with them, a little less harsh would have been "they"... :)

Well as far as I'm concerned one screaming thing that never stops is
an "it" :-P Unless there's more than one, in which case "they" are
utterly torturing me :-(

should be safely in bed hours before that in my
opinion. I guess modern parents have rather different ideas than mine
did... sometimes I feel about 20 years older than I actually am, in my
ideas of proper behaviour etc.
Yes and no...It's a little harder now then "back in the day". Sometimes parents have no choice in that due to work schedules and such. Attitudes and law has changed where you basically can't let a child out of an adults sight while they are awake. This isn't a 50s, or 60's thing. In the 80's I left the house during the summer and took off on my bike to go out and play at 7am, and came back for lunch, then left and came back for dinner. Great example, is I introduced my 9yo to the movie "E.T" a month or two ago. There's the scene where Elliot's school calls home to the mom, and she has to go pick him up. She tells the 6 yo daughter (drew barrymore) to "be good" for a little while while she goes and gets him, leaving her by herself at home. My daughter was like "she left her alone?!? Cool! How come you guys don't let me stay home like that - she's younger than me!" to which I had to say "Because daddy would go to jail" :)

Well, I grew up in the 90s, so it's not that long ago! And parents
have plenty choices - go earlier in the day, get someone to babysit if
you're at work earlier on and it's past the kid's bedtime, leave one
parent at home while the other goes to the shops, use home delivery
service, there's plenty options that don't involve dragging a tired
out kid around the supermarket at 10pm. Or just don't have a child if
they're not prepared to look after it properly... that would be the
best solution frankly, since most so-called parents I see have zero
clue and don't do a thing about their brats' behaviour. And yeah I
don't claim I could do any better, but I don't intend to have any :-P

True, I'm just saying there my be circumstances that are out of one's
control...a happy family fully prepared to look after a child properly
(as you say) when they have it, but a year or two later a death of a
parent, or more common these days, the loss of one or both of the
parents career jobs and they are working 2-3 jobs trying to make ends
meet, whatever they have to do. Not saying that there aren't just bad
parents out there, but just not everyone dragging a kid around a
supermarket at 9pm is a bad mom or dad. :)

...Dad away on business, Mom home alone with kid when said child gets
sick, and mom needs to go to store at 10pm at night for medicine, which
is usually the supermarket. This happened to us once years ago when I
was away, and my wife had no choice but to bring my sick daughter, who
woke up with a fever to the grocery store for Tylenol at 11pm...Nether
one of them really wanted to be there to say the least, and my daughter
at the time let the whole store know about it.. :)

Now me? I'm more the homebody type to begin with. I work so I can be
home when I'm not, enjoying the fruits of my efforts. The last place
you'll find me is in a supermarket at 10pm, even if I didn't have
kids...10pm kids are in bed and I'm usually smack in the middle of a
raid or heroic! heh...

....anyway, that's why I got married - send the wife out if we need
anything for an emergency...
....and damn it - bring me my coffee on the way home woman! <cracking
succubus whip> (lmao - joking of course) :)


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